I want to play this but I wish to know how bad the localization is? Was there anything changed or censored? Already played DOD1 and the shitfest that was 2 as well as Nier.
How's the localization?
Brandon Jenkins
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Brandon Lee
I've heard it's pretty shit.
Benjamin Cox
Dont play this game OP. Its not even the localization itself, its shit compared to D1 in terms of gameplay. Besides running horribly the gameplay is a step back on top of that because you cant even use your dragon much.
Carson Davis
Please elaborate.
Austin Green
Terrible, it's also a mediocre game compared to D1 in general.
Just read it here and be done with it:
Btw D2 was terrible, but it did have old man badass Caim, and this guy, whos story was kinda interesting, so it wasn't a total waste, i guess.
Jose Kelly
The Dragon segments are entirely on rails, cant just jump onto it whenever you feel like compared to the intro sections I've played in D1. The sound design is genuinely terrible, I never really complain about sound in games but the mixing is completely fucked because in cutscenes where voice acting is louder compared to the music. The framerate is dogshit. I never played Nier 1 but since D3 is made after that I'm expecting the worst.
Jacob Stewart
Nier plays, sounds and feels great. The english localization is also pretty damn good since 8-4 was kept on a very tight leash.
Carter Wilson
Nier is great.
Well it's not the best game ever made or anything, gameplay wise it's mediocre.
But it's good, it has many good elements in it.
Definitely play it before Nier 2 comes out.
Ian Flores
Is the story at least good enough that you'll want to get the true ending in Nier? I've only made it up to the Branch A ending in D3 because the story and characters just didnt interest me at all, the only thing I remember about it is the soundtrack and its many faults.
Isaac Brooks
The true ending in nier offers naught but a admittedly neat meta gimmick with no actual story payoff. Just do NG+ once, it's the meat of the experience.
Jaxon Phillips
Yeah, Nier has a solid story.
Nathan Stewart
Get ending A and B. Watch C and D on youtube or get a save file from somewhere.
Lucas Carter
Speaking of localization Taro doesnt seem to care since he thinks his stories are pretty shit at the end of the day
Benjamin Reed
A lot of people stop at Branch A from what I hear, for similar reasons too. The issue is that the story up until after Branch A is sort of hidden from you and the characters aren't explored much. I don't think you even find out why Zero is trying to kill her sisters until Branch C iirc so it doesn't give most people much incentive to keep playing. It's the worst/least good of the 3 games Yoko's directed but it has it's moments.
Matthew Green
I don't speak Kraut, but there's this statement from him regarding the localization: nichegamer.com
Jason Jones
No, he doesn't care because he doesn't give a fuck about the western version of his games.
He exclusively cares about the japanese version and that's it.
Evan Martin
I bought the collector's edition for this game and I haven't even played it. I didn't even play the first two games. I did play Nier though.
Hudson Nelson
I still wonder why Yoko Taro structured the story like that, it doesnt make sense.
Henry Wright
The interview is in english skip ahead a bit.
Ian Lewis
He's got a video on the way he writes stories at GDC. He calls it backwards script writing, and essentially he thinks of the end point and a bunch of critical points along the way then goes from there. He says he does this to account for his low budgets. Given the way DOD3 turns out in the end I wouldn't say that the endings before the final ending are really endings, just important points in the plot as opposed to the more conclusive endings we got in Nier and DOD1.
William Walker
Play D1.
Or if you can't, at least read this.
Lucas Roberts
I've read about that technique he uses. Its just that with DOD3 it doesnt give much reason to want to go any further than Branch A, it certainly didnt make a compelling arguement in terms of story up to that point or gameplay, for me at least. Maybe one day I'll finish up Branch B and at least go to Branch C.
Sebastian Anderson
I'm surprised nobody posted this yet.